A review by arcyeus
Broken April by Ismail Kadare

5.0

Kadare finds a way to craft a culture and code steeped in the past into what feels like a dystopian, sometimes Orwellian world. The wasteland the characters inhabit is ever-present in all its melancholy. This pairs well with the internal struggles of the protagonist in questioning yet finally succumbing to the Kanun, the Code of the Albanian mountains.